📏 Form Guide

Orgryte

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Orgryte go into this fixture coming off the back of a 1-1 Superettan drawn match versus Östersunds FK.

The only scorer from Orgryte was Edi Sylisufaj (49'). Arquimides Ordóñez (86') was the scorer for Östersunds FK.

It has been all too rare in recent times that Orgryte have shown defensive steel. The facts show that Orgryte have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 games, shipping 10 goals on the way.

Analysis of their past results shows that Orgryte:

• have not registered a win against Östers IF in their previous 6 league games.
• are without a win at home for the past 2 league games.

Östers IF

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After a loss in their previous game against Sandvikens IF in Superettan competition, Östers IF and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

Emil Engqvist (78') scored for Sandvikens IF.

A run of effective performances by the Östers IF defensive players has seen the number of goals they’ve conceded amounting to 4 from their last 6 outings in total. During the same period of time, the number of goals that they have scored themselves is 14. Let’s see if that trend can be continued on into this next match.

Going into this contest, Östers IF remain unbeaten by Orgryte when they've played them away from home in the last 3 league matches.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A review of their prior head to head meetings going back to 11/04/2021 shows us that Orgryte have won 0 of these games and Östers IF 3, with the tally of drawn matches standing at 3.

A combined total of 12 goals were produced between them in this period, with 4 of them from Sällskapet and 8 netted by Östers. That’s an average goals per game of 2.

The previous league contest featuring the two was Superettan match day 20 on 27/08/2023 which finished with the scoreline of Östers IF 2-0 Orgryte.

On that occasion, Östers IF managed 56% possession and 17 attempts on goal with 6 on target. The scorer was Niklas Söderberg (15', 58').

At the other end, Orgryte got 15 attempts on goal with 7 of them on target.

The referee was Farouk Nehdi.

📋 Team News: Orgryte

The Orgryte boss Andreas Holmberg does not have any fitness concerns whatsoever coming into this clash thanks to a fully healthy squad to pick from.

📋 Team News: Östers IF

Thanks to a fully healthy group available for selection, the Östers IF boss Martin Foyston doesn’t have any fitness concerns at all before this game.

🧠 Prediction

Our feeling is that Orgryte will need things to go their way to put one past this Östers IF side who we reckon will end up scoring and possibly keep a clean sheet as well.

We’re therefore seeing a very competitive encounter with a 0-1 win for Östers IF when all is said and done.

Let’s see what happens.

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Peter Guest, 14:04 27/04/2024